Equatorial Guinean National Football Team

This article is about the men's Equatorial Guinean national soccer team . For the women's team, see Equatorial Guinean National Football Team .

Equatorial Guinea
República de Guinea Ecuatorial

Nickname (s)	Nzalang Nacional
Association	Federación Ecuatoguineana de Fútbol
confederacy	CAF
Technical sponsor	Adidas
Head coach	Sébastien Migné (since 2019)
captain	Emilio Nsue
Record scorer	Emilio Nsue (11)
Record player	Iván Zarandona (41)
Home stadium	Nuevo Estadio de Malabo
FIFA code	EQG
FIFA rank	145th (1066 points) (as of July 16, 2020)
First jersey Second jersey
statistics
First international game People's Republic of China 6-2 Equatorial Guinea ( Beijing , China ; May 23, 1975 )
Biggest win Equatorial Guinea 4-0 South Sudan ( Malabo , Equatorial Guinea ; September 4, 2016 )
Biggest defeat VR Congo 6-0 Equatorial Guinea ( Banjul , Gambia ; December 13, 1990 )
Successes in tournaments
African Championship
Participation in the finals	2 ( first : 2012 )
Best results	4th place 2015
(As of November 19, 2019)

The national Guinean football team is controlled by the Federación Ecuatoguineana de Fútbol , which was founded in 1984. Equatorial Guinea played its first official international match in December of the same year .

Previously, there had been an unofficial international match against China in 1975 , which China had won 6-2 as the home team.

The team has not yet managed to qualify for a world championship. The team was able to qualify for the Africa Cup . Since 2002, the country has regularly participated in qualifications for World Cups, and since 2000 in the Africa Cup of Nations. The team belongs to the athletic middle class of the African FIFA member states.

Equatorial Guinea and Gabon will host the 2012 African Cup, which means that the team took part in an African Cup as hosts for the first time and reached the quarter-finals, in which they lost 3-0 to Ivory Coast . In the FIFA world rankings , the team climbed 41 places to 110th place after reaching the quarter-finals.

The greatest success of the Equatorial Guinean national team so far was the victory at the CEMAC-CUP (a football competition held by the teams from Cameroon , Republic of the Congo , Gabon , Equatorial Guinea , Central African Republic and Chad ) in 2006. In the final, defending champion Cameroon surprisingly came out after 1-1 in the regular playing time, defeated 4-2 on penalties. However, Cameroon played with a local selection, so the game is not recognized by FIFA as an A international.

The team is currently 59th in the official FIFA world rankings, their best position to date, with the team improving by 45 places compared to the previous month (as of April 2013).

Tournaments

World Championship

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• 1986 to 1998 : did not participate
• 2002 to 2018 : not qualified

African Championship

→ Main article : African Cup of Nations

• 1986 : did not take part
• 1988 : withdrawn
• 1990 : not qualified
• 1992 : did not participate
• 1994 : did not participate
• 1996 : withdrawn
• 1998 : did not participate
• 2000 : did not participate
• 2002 to 2010 : not qualified
• 2012 : quarter-finals (as co-host with Gabon)
• 2013 : not qualified
• 2015 : 4th place
• 2017 : not qualified
• 2019 : not qualified

African Nations Championship

• 2009 : did not participate
• 2011 : withdrawn in qualification
• 2014 : did not participate

CEMAC Cup

→ Main article : CEMAC Cup

• 1984: preliminary round
• 1985: preliminary round
• 1986: preliminary round
• 1987: fourth
• 1988: preliminary round
• 1989: did not participate
• 1990: preliminary round
• 2003: did not participate
• 2005: preliminary round
• 2006: Master
• 2007: preliminary round
• 2008: preliminary round
• 2009: second
• 2010: preliminary round

COSAFA Senior Challenge

→ Main article : COSAFA Senior Challenge

• 2013 : withdrawn

National coach

Years	Surname
1980	Manuel Sanchís Martínez
1989-1990	Julio Raúl González
1991-1998	Pedro-Mabale Fuga Afang
1999	Jesús Martín Dorta
1999	Jean-Jacques Dortas
2000	Raúl Eduardo Rodríguez
2000-2001	Juan Carlos Bueriberi Echuaca
2002	Francisco Nsi Nchama
2003	Jesús Martín Dorta
2003	Óscar Engonga
2004	Adel Amrouche
2004-2006	Antônio Dumas
2006	Quique Setién
2007-2008	Jordan de Freitas
2008-2009	Vicente Engonga
2009-2010	Carlos Diarte
2010	Casto Nopo (interim)
2010	Henri Michel
2011	Casto Nopo (interim)
2012	Gilson Paulo
2013-2014	Andoni Goikoetxea
2015-2017	Esteban Becker
2017	Casto Nopo (interim)
2017-2018	Franck Dumas
2018	Rodolfo Bodipo (interim)
2018	Casto Nopo (interim)
2018-2019	Ángel López Pérez
2019	Casto Nopo (interim)
2019	Antonio Pancho (interim)
2019	Felipe Esono
2019	Dani Guindos
2019–	Sébastien Migné

Record player

As of November 17, 2019

Players marked in bold are still active.

#	Surname	Period	Games	Gates
1.	Iván Zarandona	2003-2017	41	1
2.	Juvenal	2003-2015	40	9
	Felipe Ovono	2011-	40	0
4th	Randy	2010-2018	38	4th
5.	Rui	2010-	34	0
6th	Javier Balboa	2007-2017	32	6th
7th	Viera Ellong	2007-2017	31	2
	Diosdado furniture	2013-	31	0
9.	Danilo Clementino	2006-2013	30th	0
	Sipo	2010-2015	30th	0

Record goal scorers

As of November 17, 2019

Players marked in bold are still active.

#	Surname	Period	Gates	Games
1.	Emilio Nsue	2013–	11	23
2.	Juvenal	2000-2012	09	40
3.	Javier Balboa	2006-2017	06th	32

Other well-known players

Due to the equatorial Guinean official language Spanish , European legionnaires mostly play in Spain . The more well-known names are often descendants of former refugees who left the country for Spain during the dictatorship of Francisco Macías Nguema . Rodolfo Bodipo Díaz ( Deportivo La Coruña ), Iván Bolado ( FC Cartagena ), Raúl Fabiani ( CD Alcoyano ) are currently playing in the Spanish Segunda Division .

See also

• List of the international matches of the equatorial Guinean national football team

Web links

• Official website of the association ( Memento of August 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish)
• Equatorial Guinea on the FIFA website
• rsssf-com archive of the results from 1975 to today

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 . 
2. ↑ FIFA.com: Germany now ahead of the Netherlands
3. ↑ fifa.com: Croatia and Ecuador on the rise
4. ↑ rsssf.com: Equatorial Guinea - Record International Players